Yesterday I suddenly remembered an obscure gameboy game on my 51-in-1 pirated cartridge that had the COOLEST space station looking thing on its title screen. But the game itself blew, so I had never gone very far and forgot about it.
So I just went and looked at hundreds and hundreds of screenshots to find the game, not really to rediscover the game but more to find out how a 160x144 pixels monochrome ~space station (?) could possibly make such an impression me. I just needed to look at it again.
I found it!
I get it now…
it might just be me, but wwf smackdown 2 has become a very funny game with the passage of time
How is it so far, setting aside what they did to the character designs
good, though finding a couple of things jarring… terminals that play seven heroes flashback scenes are dotted around in the most inexplicable places and a lot of the stats that were previously obfuscated in the original are shown in the menus
the combat feels Just Right though, most boss fights are very tense and down to the wire and it’s still balanced around you wiping fairly regularly